[ SECRET POST #3122 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3122 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[My Name is Earl]


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[Veep]


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[Welcome to Night Vale]


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[Wes Anderson]


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[Felicia Day]


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[Oscar Jarjayes/Rose of Versailles]


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[Holly Madison, Girls Next Door]


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(Game of Thrones)








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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Anon who mentioned kringla in yesterdays driving thread, I have a questions!

Did you mean kinglas? Because I have a family recipe for those (they're a cookie, for us) BUT NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER HEARD OF THEM.

Please tell me that's what you mean?

(Anyone else, feel free to gush/complain about regional foods here!)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not the anon from yesterday, but are you thinking of the Scandinavian pastry kringle/kringla?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kringle

[(Anonymous)]

I am the anon from yesterday, and I was thinking of the Scandinavian cookie, but the ones you'd get at a Lutheran Christmas food fair or supermarket bakery in central Iowa don't look a bit like that except for the pretzel shape--ours are an almost-white, slightly puffy, soft cookie with a faint almond or vanilla flavor.

[(Anonymous)]

I assumed they meant kringle.

Complaint: I wish I could get kringle without the icing.

[(Anonymous)]

I was the person who mentioned them in yesterday's driving thread, and I thought kringla was the plural and kringle the singular, but what do I know? I'm not Scandinavian, and I'm really only a Midwesterner by courtesy.

Where do you live that they come with icing? Ours here in mid-Iowa never do, and the idea of icing on them sounds just so weird and gross to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I havw no idea about the singular/plural. I live in Milwaukee and Racine - the next city to the south - is All. About. The Kringle. They always come with icing, everywhere I see them. I think the filling is sweet enough and would prefer no icing.

[(Anonymous)]

SA. Apparently you're talking about a cookie. I'm talking about those great, big oval pastries.

http://www.ohdanishbakery.com/everyday-kringle-favorites

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I've never encountered those before, and I think I agree with you--without even tasting them, the icing would really put me off trying them. I wonder if you can request them with no icing.

[(Anonymous)]

When your average person from central Iowa says "kringla," they mean these Scandinavian cookies:

www.midwestliving.com/recipes/cookies/kringla

Apparently, you can bake them from flaky Danish pastry dough, but I've never seen those, and I've never seen one iced--or, God forbid, in flavors like banana walnut, which is just weird and wrong. The ones you get at Norwegian coffee shops or at the Lutheran Christmas food fair or the supermarket, in my neck of the woods, are these pale, pretzel-shaped things with a mild almond or vanilla flavor. (I suppose they're the ultimate white food.)

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, that's them! That's so weird, I don't think we have any relation to Norway, just Germany, but I could be wrong. Ours always taste of vanilla, never almond, because that's how Grandma did it.

Thanks anon!

[(Anonymous)]

TBH, I'm kind of meh about kringla--same with Dutch letters, the other popular local pastry. I wouldn't miss them if I moved away, whereas I really miss the rich rolled-up bread with walnut filling (potica or beigli) that my grandmother in Allentown PA used to make for holidays. My folks in the Philadelphia area can get those too, and when I go home to visit, they often have one. But I still like Nana's best--she would leave the walnuts a little crunchy instead of crushing them to a paste, and the bread was a little sturdier also. They are a Pennsylvania thing, by way of Hungarian and Slovak immigrants.